Category: Revenge (11-19 of 19)

Oct 20 2011 11:20 AM ET

EW's Bite of the Night for Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011

We at EW scoured the TV line-up last night to find the best quotable lines from your favorite shows. You can safely assume it wasn’t the looming rubber man on American Horror Story, but what about the cut-ups at Modern Family and Happy Endings? Perhaps a plotting castaway from Survivor or one of the Machiavellian Hamptonsistas on Revenge… See our pick below!

Want more? Read our Revenge recap here.

Read more:
EW’s Bite of the Night for Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011
EW’s Bite of the Night for Monday, Oct. 17, 2011
EW’s Bite of the Night for Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011

Oct 20 2011 09:00 AM ET

This Week's Cover: 'American Horror Story' and eight other new shows you love

Do you like scary movies? Then you’ll love FX’s new series American Horror Story, the craziest new TV series of the fall season — and perhaps ever. Created by Glee’s Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, AHS is a feverish, sexed-up reimagining of one of the most reliable tropes of the genre, the haunted house. And in this week’s issue, EW goes behind the scenes of the fabulously freaky frightfest. The Harmon family — father Ben (The Practice‘s Dylan McDermott), mother Vivien (Friday Night Lights‘ Connie Britton), and daughter Violet (newcomer Taissa Farmiga) — move from Boston to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but end up moving into a house that makes the Insidious abode look like a trip to Disneyland. Despite a warning that the previous owners have died in the house, the family still moves in and that’s when all hell literally breaks loose. Pretty soon, Vivien is having sex with someone/something in a rubber fetish suit, Ben is sleepwalking naked around the house, and Violet is encountering a basement-dwelling creature nicknamed the “infantata.” And that’s just in the first 50 minutes. “I read the script and I was like, ‘Um…whaat? I don’t understand,’” says Britton. “I kind of took a leap of faith.”  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 14 2011 07:00 PM ET

TV Leaderboard: 'Breaking Bad' finale was so, so good, according to EW.com reader ratings

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Welcome, Breaking Bad addicts. The past two weeks, you’ve proven you have nothing but good feelings for Breaking Bad, turning the AMC series into the highest-rated show among EW.com readers two weeks in a row. So it’s not so surprising that the season finale of the Bryan Cranston-starring series captured the No. 1 spot once again this week, finishing atop another previous first-place finisher, The Vampire Diaries. Other shows that didn’t suck for you all? Fringe and two series making their leaderboard debuts. Here are the full standings:

1. Breaking Bad (AMC) — last week: 1
2. The Vampire Diaries (The CW) — last week: 5
3. Fringe (Fox) — last week: not ranked
4. Community (NBC) — last week: not ranked
5. Revenge (ABC) — last week: not ranked

Honorable mentions: Modern Family, Ringer, Grey’s Anatomy, Parks and Recreation, The Office

Unhappy with the winners? Then check out EW’s recaps each week, and make sure to rate that week’s episode!

Read more:
TV LEADERBOARD WEEK 3: ‘Breaking Bad’ tops EW.com reader ratings
TV LEADERBOARD WEEK 2: ‘Breaking Bad’ passes ‘The Vampire Diaries’ 
TV LEADERBOARD WEEK 1:  ’The Vampire Diaries’ tops for premiere week

Oct 13 2011 01:20 PM ET

'Revenge': We revisit the pilot for hidden clues. What did you find?

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Image Credit: Colleen Hayes/ABC

Each episode of Revenge is so full of juicy delicious mystery that it’s easy to forget that the show opened with a murderous flash-forward. I don’t know about you, but most of what happened — or will happen — during that Labor Day weekend engagement party went completely over my head. I remember there were a lot of rich-looking, beautiful people at a party… and that someone died.

After last night’s episode, which furthered the Emily/Daniel/Jack love triangle, it all came crashing back. Wait a minute, Daniel is going to die! I decided to re-watch the pilot to scan for clues, now that I can distinguish the Baldwins and the Bettys from each other. Read on to see some of my retrospective theories — and post your own in the comments below. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 12 2011 07:40 PM ET

What are YOUR picks for the three best (and worst!) new shows of the season?

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A few weeks into the new TV season, we’ve already seen a few new shows fall victim to low ratings and overall stink. (Sorry, Free Agents.) But on the glass half-full side, we’re also slowly learning which shows have a strong pulse, and subsequently — if you’re one of those who waits to get invested — which ones we should be jumping on board.

Admittedly, that’s still a crap load of shows to sift through. Personally, three have floated to the top of my must-watch list (at least, this is the standing until Once Upon a Time premieres in two weeks): American Horror Story, 2 Broke Girls, and Hart of Dixie. My most controversial pick is easily Dixie — and not because Rachel Bilson’s microscopic shorts are basically illegal in Alabama. But it’s not a critically adored new show and hasn’t garnered huge ratings. (It has, however, gotten a full season pick up. WOO!) Whatever. I like it. And that’s the attitude we all have to adopt when talking about our new faves. Hold the torch even when it seems like there’s no one else who likes it. Spoiler: There’s always someone else.

That’s my official pep talk. Now, ‘fess up. What are your three favorite shows of the season, readers? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 12 2011 04:51 PM ET

Hey 'Revenge': What's the deal with that dog?

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Image Credit: Antony Platt/ABC

Like many of us here in the EW offices, I’m completely and unashamedly hooked on Revenge. The ABC drama — starring Emily VanCamp as a young woman bent on avenging her father’s ruin — is full of fun twists, fancy rich people doing fun, fancy, rich people things, and, perhaps most importantly, displays the utter awesomeness that is Madeleine Stowe. But! There is a small nagging issue that has been driving me more and more crazy with every viewing: What is the deal with that dog, Sam? READ FULL STORY »

Oct 7 2011 03:55 PM ET

TV Leaderboard: 'Breaking Bad' tops again in EW.com reader ratings

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As Breaking Bad enters the homestretch for its fourth season, this week’s episode — in which a tragedy forced Jesse to choose sides in the Walt/Gus conflict — was far and away the highest-rated TV show among EW.com readers. Elsewhere, Glee jumped into the top ranks for the first time, thanks to an episode, “Asian F,” widely considered to be one of the show’s very best in a long time. Parks and Recreation continued its unbroken streak of top-tier ratings, while The Vampire Diaries dropped a bit to fifth. Here are the full standings: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 29 2011 02:00 AM ET

'Revenge': Down with the rich! Did you watch the second episode of ABC's new melodrama?

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I was a big fan of the premiere of Revenge last week, which found a nice tonal mixture between soap-opera froth and high-melodrama insanity. That’s a difficult tone to hit every week, and I fully expected a drop-off in quality in the second episode. Not so! To my eyes, last night’s episode followed through on creator Mike Kelley’s promise that Revenge will keep things moving lickety-split. In just one hour, the show featured the fall of a Wall Street titan, a post-affair shakedown, a potentially fatal heart attack for a somewhat extraneous character (farewell, lovable poor dad?), and a polo match. I’m definitely intrigued. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 22 2011 02:00 AM ET

'Revenge' series premiere: Finally, the Confucius-quoting 'Real Housewives'/'Count of Monte Cristo' mash-up you've been waiting for

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Some people complain that reality TV is fake, but I’ve always felt like fundamental problem with the genre is that it’s not nearly fake enough. No matter how dramatic things might get on a season of Survivor, we know that the contestants are in a controlled environment surrounded by camera-men and medical personnel. “Villains” like Russell might talk a big game, but it’s fundamentally a PG-rated Lord of the Flies, a paid vacation for contestants to get tan and trim; the only true threat is that someone might embarrass themselves on national television. It’s worth remembering that the initial pitch for Lost was a fictionalized Survivor — which is to say, a Survivor where the castaways might actually kill each other. ABC’s new melodrama Revenge isn’t perfect, but at its best, the show suggests a kind of Lost-ification of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise: It conjures up a world where social homicide might actually turn into actual homicide. READ FULL STORY »

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